On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:18:35AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >Would you suggest making /dev/random point to /dev/hw_random then ? > > No. I for example do not have a hardware RNG, so `modprobe hw_random` fails > with No Such Device. Making it a symlink would make it a dangling one.
It shouldn't be a symlink. Something like rngd should read from it and feed it into /dev/random's entropy pool. Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/